Police, Aug. 16

Hazleton police said a vehicle operated by Brian Brotzman, of McAdoo, collided with a vehicle driven by Roger Amaro, of Hazleton, at Green and Wyoming streets, Sunday at about 11:40 a.m. Both vehicles were towed and the investigation continues, police said. No injuries were reported.

Man struck by vehicle suffers minor injuries

George Semian, 78, of Old Forge, was walking north across Broad Street in Hazleton, just before 10 p.m. Saturday when a vehicle driven by Jennifer Gonzalez, 22, of Jersey City, N.J., turning from Church Street, onto Broad Street, hit him, Hazleton police said. Gonzalez told police she didn't see Semian, who was hit in the lower right leg and taken to Hazleton General Hospital for minor injuries.

McAdoo woman faces underage drinking charge

A 19-year-old McAdoo woman was charged with underage drinking after allegedly jumping from a window at a Butler Township home early Saturday morning.

Township police said they were called to a home in the Sleepy Hollow section of the township around 3 a.m. for a person that saw a woman jump from a second floor window. Police searched the area and found Lydia J. Gundry at a home on Hell's Kitchen Court in Beech Mountain Lakes and charged her, police said.

2 face underage drinking charges

Butler Township police said Keyona L. Wheeler, 18, of Washington, D.C. and a 17-year-old juvenile from Ashland were cited for underage drinking Friday after police found them prowling near a school building at the Keystone Job Corps around 11 p.m.

Man who left crash scene will face several charges

A Nuremberg man will be charged with various offenses after hitting a parked vehicle and then leaving the scene Saturday at about 11:05 p.m.

State police at Frackville said Zachary Johnson, 22, was driving south on Mahanoy Street in Nuremberg when he traveled outside of the travel lane and hit a legally parked vehicle owned by Edwin Welsh of Nuremberg.

Police said Johnson left his vehicle on the road and then left the area by another means. Troopers found Johnson later and he admitted to the crash, saying he dropped a cigarette while he was driving, which caused him to go off the road. He didn't report any injuries, police said.

Johnson will be charged with roadways laned for traffic, careless driving, accidents involving damage to unattended vehicle and immediate notice of accident to police.

Nuremberg-Weston Fire Co., responded. State police said North Union Township police were not on active duty when the accident happened.

Man who allegedly stole laptops faces additional charges

Additional and unrelated charges were filed against a Hazleton man arrested after stealing a laptop computer from the Mahoning Township Walmart and then leading police on a chase until he ran out of gas Aug. 8.

Robert E. Stalter Jr., 38, of Hazleton was arrested and arraigned on multiple charges by Mahoning Township police, who found he was also wanted by Luzerne County Probation and Parole.

On Aug. 1, a week before getting arrested in Mahoning Township, state police at Hazleton filed their own theft-related charges against Stalter. Police said Stalter was identified as a man that had stolen laptop computers from the Walmart in Hazle Township at least three times and attempted to steal one a fourth time, according to an affidavit of probable cause. Loss prevention workers at the Hazle Township store said each laptop was valued at $348. State police charged Stalter with retail theft, criminal attempt and criminal mischief.

Woman to be charged with lying to police

Ingrid Alison Urenovitch, 36, of Hazleton was charged with unsworn falsification to authorities and two counts of false reports to law enforcement, after lying to state police at Hazleton.

According to a criminal docket, Urenovitch lied to police when she told them she was with someone else inside a Hazle Township grocery store when 90 Xanax pills were stolen from inside the truck she was a passenger in, June 13. When Urenovitch was interviewed again by troopers she told them that she was alone inside the store in the dairy isle when the theft happened.

Man faces charges in domestic dispute

Isaiah Lee, 48, of Holbrook, N.Y. was charged with simple assault and harassment by Hazleton police after allegedly assaulting his wife, Darlene McGee. According to an affidavit of probable cause, McGee told police that on July 29 Lee was drinking and an argument ensued between the couple.

During the argument, Lee became violent and hit McGee in the face with a closed fist, court papers say. McGee ran out of the home on West Diamond Avenue and Lee followed, continuing to swing at her, punched her in the chest, knocking her backwards and then picked up a lawn chair and hit her in the back with it, according to the affidavit.

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